Sweet Potato update

After the digging was done we weighed the potatoes there was a total of 262.20 #s of sweet potatoes.

I have enclosed a picture of a few buckets of potatoes. These are 7 gallons and 20-gallon containers.

Andrew and Adrian helped dig one day and Karina and Sophia help dig another day. For kids, it’s like a treasure hunt digging for potatoes.

We had some potatoes that were almost 7#s each and others that were 15″ long. None of these have been stringy I think the stringy potatoes must be old because it has nothing to do with the size we have cooked some big ones.

My husband over plants everything so we end up with plenty of vegetables to give to family and friends. Our freezer is full of squash, peppers, leeks, and onions. Some have been grilled some baked.

He gave one of his friends 50#s of potatoes to share with his family. We gave our daughter Jeanelle about 25#s but she will be back for more.

I have made 3 sweet potatoes pies using my grandmother’s recipe, 2 to give away one to share. I also made a cream cheese sweet potato cake that was the best cake I have had in a long time we shared that with Jeanelle and their family. I made some sweet potato pecan bread that turned out really good. We are trying to be creative around here.

We have been eating sweet potatoes at least 2 x a week. I want to try and cook some Hasselback ones.

I did read you can bake, cool, peel, and freeze so I might do some of that but I need that second freezer.

Fall tilling and planting has started so before you know it we will be overrun with cabbage lol.